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Security Research Engineer - AI Security, Agentic AI &amp; Emerging Cybersecurity
Must Have Technical Skills
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<li>Technical Security Research Engineer to research, prototype, evaluate, and operationalize emerging cybersecurity capabilities.</li>
<li>This is a hands-on role for someone who can move from a research hypothesis to working code, proof-of-concept, product evaluation, and enterprise recommendation.</li>
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Roles and Responsibilities
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<li>Build agentic AI security harnesses, prototypes, and POCs for new cyber capabilities.</li>
<li>Research AI Security, Agentic AI, Application Security, quantum/PQC, blockchain, and other emerging technologies.</li>
<li>Develop and integrate agents, LLMs, APIs, security tools, automation, and test environments.</li>
<li>Evaluate new cybersecurity products and startups through hands-on testing, benchmarking, and technical due diligence.</li>
<li>Validate vendor claims and assess security, scalability, integration complexity, and enterprise applicability.</li>
<li>Help transition successful research prototypes toward operational use.</li>
<li>Present technical findings and recommendations to engineering, security leadership, and investment stakeholders.</li>
</ul>
Highly Valued
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<li>Research papers or presentations at recognized cybersecurity, AI, or systems forums.</li>
<li>Experience with AI red teaming, autonomous penetration testing, agent security, or AI-native security tooling.</li>
<li>Cybersecurity startup, founder, or early-stage product experience.</li>
<li>Experience pitching to venture capital, corporate venture teams, accelerators, or investment stakeholders.</li>
<li>Patents, open-source security projects, vulnerability research, or other demonstrated technical innovation.</li>
<li>Certifications: CISSP, OSCP, CSSLP or equivalent.</li>
<li>The ideal candidate combines the mindset of a security researcher, software engineer, and emerging-technology evaluator and is comfortable turning new ideas into measurable, working cybersecurity capabilities.</li>
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Technical Leadership
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<li>Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, AI, Computer Engineering, or related field; PhD welcomed.</li>
<li>Strong hands-on software development skills, particularly Python, Java, Node, Go, C/C++ with experience in additional modern programming languages.</li>
<li>Experience with LLMs, AI agents, tool calling, orchestration frameworks, APIs, cloud, containers, and security automation.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge of Application Security, AI Security, vulnerability research, threat modeling, Secure development, Network security, infrastructure Security, Security Architecture and other security domains.</li>
<li>Demonstrated ability to design experiments, build prototypes, and evaluate emerging technologies.</li>
<li>Strong technical writing and presentation skills.</li>
</ul>
Generic Managerial Skills
<ul>
<li>Master’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, AI, Computer Engineering, or related field; PhD welcomed.</li>
<li>Strong hands-on software development skills, particularly Python, Java, Node, Go, C/C++ with experience in additional modern programming languages.</li>
<li>Experience with LLMs, AI agents, tool calling, orchestration frameworks, APIs, cloud, containers, and security automation.</li>
<li>Strong knowledge of Application Security, AI Security, vulnerability research, threat modeling, Secure development, Network security, infrastructure Security, Security Architecture and other security domains.</li>
<li>Demonstrated ability to design experiments, build prototypes, and evaluate emerging technologies.</li>
<li>Strong technical writing and presentation skills.</li>
</ul>

Security Research Engineer - AI Security, Agentic AI & Emerging Cybersecurity

Security Research Engineer - AI Security, Agentic AI & Emerging Cybersecurity

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